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Cheshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties Championship in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Cheshire. The traditional counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England into around forty areas, which were used for both administrative and general geographical demarcation for several hundreds of years. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2005 est. ...
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The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester) [1] is a...
The club is based at (details needed) and also plays matches around the county at (details needed).
The Minor Counties play three-day matches at a level below that of the first-class game. At present, Cheshire competes in the Eastern Division of the Minor Counties Championship. The minor counties are the cricketing counties of England that are not afforded first class status. ...
First-class cricket matches are those between international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams in which teams have two innings each. ...
Honours
- Minor Counties Championship (3) - 1967, 1985, 1988; shared (2) - 2001, 2005
- MCCA Knockout Trophy (3) - 1983, 1987, 1996
Earliest cricket Cricket may not have reached Cheshire until the 18th century. The earliest reference to the game being played there is in 1781.
Origin of club According to Wisden there was a county organisation as early as 1819. The present club was founded on 29 September 1908. September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Club history Cheshire has won the Minor Counties Championship three times, and twice shared the title. It won the title outright in 1967, 1985 and 1988. It shared the accolade in 2001 with Lincolnshire and in 2005 with Suffolk.
Cheshire has won the MCCA Knockout Trophy three times since its inception in 1983. It won in 1983, 1987 and 1996.
Famous players The following Cheshire cricketers also made an impact on the first-class game: First-class cricket matches are those between international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams in which teams have two innings each. ...
Robert (Bob) William Barber (born on 26 September 1935 in Withington, Manchester, Lancashire, England) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Lancashire and Warwickshire from 1954 to 1969. ...
Winston Keithroy Matthew Benjamin (b. ...
Mudassar Nazar (born April 6, 1956, Lahore, Punjab) is a former Pakistani cricketer with a career in test cricket for Pakistan and in league cricket in Pakistan and England. ...
External links - Minor Counties Cricket Association Official Site
References
The role of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) is to promote and encourage research into the statistical and historical aspects of cricket throughout the world (at all levels) and to publish the findings. ...
Major Rowland Bowen (born c. ...
Peter Wynne-Thomas (born Retford, Nottinghamshire 30 July 1934) is an English cricket archivist, writer, historian and statistician. ...
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